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Welcome to the tech news, where every story makes me feel a little bit like

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Elmo, a small red creature screaming

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into the void while the man's hand controls everything I do. It's like,

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what are you doing? Google is now using AI to replace news headlines in its

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search results. The Verge found multiple instances where headlines they wrote

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were swapped for AI generated versions, sometimes changing the meaning entirely.

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When contacted for comment, Google claimed that this is part of a small and

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narrow experiment to explore the effects of serving headlines that better match

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the user's profile. With the personalized titles being based on the

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user's query, location, and search history, critics have been quick to call

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out that these tailor made headlines go so far as to be clickbaity, something

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that the internet has never had to deal with before. While not great for

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journalistic integrity, it does explain why my search results have all been

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clickbait articles for the big shrimp conspiracy that my uncle keeps googling

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when he comes over. Dave, big shrimp isn't real. You were on a banana boat

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>> and you had heat stroke. >> It's worth noting that Google said that

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the insertion of AI headlines into the discover feed back in July was also an

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experiment, but a month later they made it a permanent feature. Since then,

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publishers have seen organic traffic drops of 30 to 60%. As Google is

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actively filling search with slop, over on the YouTube side, they're stopping to

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ask, "Hey, how sloppy do you like it?" Users have reported seeing polls

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inquiring whether the videos they're watching feel like AI slop, which while

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annoying that it's necessary, is at least an indication of some level of

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self-awareness. Many were quick to call this out, however, as YouTube just

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crowdsourcing free training data for Google's next slot model, which sounds

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like a horrifying reality show. >> Still featuring Tyro Banks though.

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They come out onto the runway like, "HI,

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SUPER Micro co-founder Wall-E Leah has

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been arrested by the FBI for smuggling$2

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and a half billion dollars worth of servers fitted with NVIDIA GPUs to

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China. This is before America was trying

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to get the China to buy them. Lea together with his Taiwan-based sales

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manager Steven Chang used a front company in Southeast Asia to order the

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servers which were delivered to the front company, repackaged into unmarked

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boxes, and forwarded to China. To fool inspectors, they stocked the front

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company's warehouse with thousands of dummy servers so that when Super Micro's

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compliance team or US export officials came to verify the equipment, it looked

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like the already smuggled hardware that was already on the ocean was still

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sitting right there. Surveillance footage from the warehouse even caught

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workers using a haird dryer to peel serial numbers off the real server and

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press them onto the fakes. These arrests are part of a broader US government

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effort to track how restricted AI chips

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keep reaching China. >> They keep slipping over there.

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>> They're too slippery. In a statement to the press, FBI assistant director and

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Spongebob Squarepants character James C. Barnacle Jr. That's amazing.

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Says the FBI will hold accountable anyone who uses American companies to

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provide export control technology to adversaries. Super Micro itself is not

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named as a defendant and says it's cooperating fully with the

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investigation. Despite this, Super Micro's stock dropped 25%. As of now,

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Lea and a Taiwanese middleman have been arrested, but Chang is on the run.

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He's probably repacking himself into an unmarked box labeled not NVIDIA GPUs as

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we speak. Happy trails, partner. We hope you live. Google is adding a mandatory

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24-hour waiting period to sideloadad apps from unverified developers on

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Android because apparently your phone needs to sleep on it. It's it's a big

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decision. Starting in August, the new advanced flow will require users to

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enable developer mode, confirm they're not being coerced by a scammer, restart

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their phone, which conveniently kills any active calls from said scammer, and

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then just wait a day. Give it a day. see how you feel. After that, you

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authenticate with biometrics or a pin and you can allow unverified installs

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for 7 days or indefinitely. Oh, okay.

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So, it's not 24 hours per app. It's 24 hours one time and then it's normal

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sideloading. Okay. Google says sideloaded apps carry malware at 50

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times the rate of Play Store apps and scammers rely on manufactured urgency to

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pressure victims into installing sketchy APKs. So developers can skip the drama

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by verifying their identity and paying a $25 fee. And Google's also offering free

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limited distribution accounts for students and hobbyists to share apps

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with up to 20 devices. Then in September, mandatory verification kicks

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in for Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand with global enforcement

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targeting 2027. Open source advocates like FDroid are calling the whole

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Elmo loves quick bits. Elmo also loves

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referring to himself in the third person, which is a trait shared by

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exactly two groups. Sesame Street characters and Tuxios under federal

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investigation.

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Meta has reversed its decision to shut down VR support for its VR ccentric

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social platform, Horizon Worlds. Just two days after confirming the shutdown,

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CTO Andrew Bosworth said on an Instagram Q&A they decided to keep it running

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after a fan reached out saying they were heartbroken that it would be shut down,

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which might be the single most powerful customer complaint in history. Who is

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this person? Horizon Worlds will stay on Quest for all existing games, but any

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new development will be mobile only. Okay, interesting. They're like

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grandfathering it. Bosworth previously said the team was having to build

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everything twice for phones and VR.

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Apparently, that includes the decision to kill it, too.

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It's so nice they decided it twice. The

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world's largest coalition of botnets, Isuru, Kim Wolf, Jack Skid, and MSAD.

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>> I think it's unrelated. >> Different MSAD. It's a different song

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>> has been taken down in a joint operation between American, German, and Canadian

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federal police. Hey, we were there, too.

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>> That was a was it that was a eh, not a

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like a y. All right. The four botnets compromised

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over 3 million IoT devices like routers and webcams, launching DOS attacks that

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peaked at a record-breaking 31.4 terabs

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per second, enough to knock basically anything offline. Authorities seized

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domains, servers, and crypto worth tens of thousands of dollars. But while two

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suspected admins were identified, no arrests have been made. The police are

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like, "We got tired from carrying all the servers and stuff, okay? We're just

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going to come back tomorrow, okay? Don't go anywhere. We just We're going on a

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donut break. Just stop. >> We're trusting you."

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A North Carolina musician just pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire

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fraud for stealing over $10 million in streaming royalties. Michael Smith,

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first indicted in 2024, colluded with an unnamed AI music company. Uhhuh. Uh to

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generate hundreds of thousands of AI tracks. Smith then used a botnet to

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stream the massive catalog billions of times, spreading plays across thousands

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of fake artists to dodge detection. Smith faces up to 5 years in prison and

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has agreed to forfeit over $8 million.

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>> That's nice of him. >> Some of it.

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>> Yeah. What? What? In their press release on the case, the DOJ says they're

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dedicated to prosecuting AI powered theft from real artists. Except if

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you're training an AI model, then it's Yeah, that's fine. We don't really care

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what copyright is anymore. NVIDIA has seemingly confirmed that DLSS5 is

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basically just a very fast fancy AI

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image to image model. NVIDIA rep Jacob Freeman told YouTuber Daniel Owen that

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the tech takes a single 2D frame plus

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motion vectors, which is just like saying where things are going to move in

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the frame as input. The model does not have direct awareness of the 3D geometry

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in the scene. no depth data and no PBR

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materials, just what it can see. It was

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also revealed that if the AI yosifies a game character a bit too much, devs only

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have the option to either turn it down, uh, mask out items in the scene

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entirely, or tweak color information

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just a little bit, which is a far cry from Jensen's claim that DLSS 5 critics

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were completely wrong. It sounds like

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they were mostly right. billions of dollars in R&D. And we got a really

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expensive Instagram filter. Some people want it. They shouldn't, but And

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scientists at Singapore's NTEU have built cyborg cockroaches that pull

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miniature camera rigs through pipelines to detect leaks. Yeah.

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Like each roach gets a tiny electronic

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backpack that steers it via electrical pulses. And a new process can assemble

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its little payload in just over a minute. Project lead Hiro Takasato

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already deployed 10 of these bad boys to Myanmar after last year's earthquake to

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aid with search and rescue. And apparently a German startup is working

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on their own cyborg cockroaches for military recon and espionage.

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Sam Fischer wishes he was this good at crawling through tight spaces

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undetected. Just like I wish I'll see you on Monday for more tech news. Or El

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or Elmo will find you. And not in a

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tickle me way, in a Elmo has your IP

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address and Elmo doesn't forget way. See

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you next time.